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The Carlyle Hotel

The Carlyle Hotel, located on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is a luxury apartment hotel with hotel rooms and suites, as well as cooperative residences. The hotel, opened in 1930, is on the east side of Madison Avenue, between 76th and 77th streets. Rona Jaffe’s maternal grandfather Moses Ginsberg financed a 40-story hotel and apartment tower on the south end of the construction site and a complementary 14-story apartment house at the north end. The hotel was designed by Sylvan Bien (1893–1959) and Harry M. Prince (1889–1972), with interiors by Dorothy Draper. The Carlyle Hotel's guests include an impressive list of celebrities, royalty, and politicians, such as U.K.’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as well as every American President after Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The hotel has undergone several changes of ownership. Rosewood Hotels & Resorts acquired the property in 2001 and advertises it as "The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel".

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  • The Carlyle was the signature project of Moses Ginsberg, who was born in Poland in 1885 and came to the United States via London in 1896. Ginsberg started out in banking, but by the 1910's he also had shipping interests. One of his steamers was sunk by a German submarine in 1917.
    In the mid-1920's he was putting up small apartment buildings in Brooklyn. By 1929 he was in full swing, buying sites on the West and East Sides of Manhattan for large-scale apartment development. ... He had bought the east blockfront of Madison Avenue from 76th to 77th Streets, and in early 1929 he filed plans to build a hotel and an apartment tower. ...
    The earliest hotel tenants included Chester Dale, an investment banker and art collector who was later president of the National Gallery of Art. His collection of French 19th- and 20th-century paintings was one of the finest of the mid-20th century. Another tenant was Truman H. Talley, a director for Fox Movietone News who sometimes appeared in and narrated the newsreels.
  • No matter the night or the performer, there’s a sense of occasion at Café Carlyle, the feeling that this is a big night out at the last great supper club in New York. The room has barely changed since it opened in 1955, except that back then, there were often two or even three shows instead of one a night. The martinis are still considered the best in the city, and the soft light from the little table lamps, the most flattering.
    The lampshades were painted by the Hungarian-born French artist Marcel Vertès, as were the fanciful and droll murals on the walls, storybook-style illustrations of children in Pierrot party hats painting and playing music, as well as dancing bears and ballerinas.
  • At the start of “Always at the Carlyle,” a glossy documentary about the Carlyle Hotel, employees say that they will not reveal anything about this celebrated Upper East Side landmark that has housed superstars, royalty and presidents. …
    Discretion may be a virtue in the upscale hospitality business, but not in documentary film. If you are going to make a movie that hints at scandal and celebrity gossip and behind-the-scenes glamour, then it’s not too much to ask that some secrets be revealed and a glass or two of juice poured. Instead, the movie’s director, Matthew Miele, collects an impressive amount of talent, including actors (George Clooney, Anjelica Huston), supermodels (Naomi Campbell) and journalists (Graydon Carter), who wax poetic about the hotel’s Art Deco style, Old World ambience and white glove treatment favored by the rich and famous.
    Every once in a while, someone hints at a great story — like the time Michael Jackson, Steve Jobs and Princess Diana shared an elevator — but it’s all setup, no punch line.
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